“Lonely Press Play” by Damon Albarn

"Lonely Press Play" was the second single from Everyday Robots, Damon Albarn's 2014 solo debut, released digitally and handed to everyone who had pre-ordered the album on iTunes. Albarn wrote it with Richard Russell, who produced it and plays the drums and percussion, with Demon Strings on strings and Stephen Sedgwick recording and mixing.

Albarn shot the video himself on his iPad, guerrilla-style, gathering footage everywhere from Tokyo and Dallas to Iceland and North Korea. He told Rolling Stone the urge to film came out of the reflective mood he was in while making the record, and he began by returning to his childhood neighborhood and wandering it with the iPad rolling, something he compared to an archaeological dig. He has also given it a stripped-back acoustic airing on BBC Radio 2, and took it to the Sundance Festival backed by a handful of string players.

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